Lead Software Engineer- Back End Java or Python

JPMorgan Chase & Co.Columbus, OH, United Statesfull timeLead
Activeverified Jun 13, 2026

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.​

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains within various business functions, all in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

  • Deliver end-to-end solutions in the form of cloud-native microservices architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices​.
  • Use domain modelling techniques to allow us to build best in class business products.​
  • Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.​
  • Build solutions that avoid single points of failure, using scalable architectural patterns.​
  • Develop secure code so that our customers and ourselves are protected from malicious actors.​
  • Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.​
  • Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users and promptly​
  • See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.​
  • Keep an eye on performance, making sure we use the right approach to identify and solve problems and ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate ​​
  • Keep us up to date by continuously updating our technologies and patterns.​
  • Support the products you've built through their entire lifecycle, including in production and during incident management​

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience​
  • Recent hands-on professional experience as a back-end software engineer​
  • Experience in coding in a recent version of the Java programming language​
  • Experience in designing and implementing effective tests (unit, component, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc.)​
  • Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies.​
  • Knowledge of messaging frameworks.​
  • Seasoned with operating, supporting and the security of mission critical software applications.​
  • Understanding with different kinds of data stores (including relational data stores)​
  • Hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-scale, high-volume data processing applications using SQL and NoSQL databases

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